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Empowerment and Burnout of Midwives at the End of Health Emergency From COVID-19
Sponsor: IRCCS Burlo Garofolo
Summary
As the fifth wave of COVID-19 comes to an end and the pandemic's countermeasures expire, there is a need to assess the impact of the pandemic on health care providers, especially midwives, as the professionals deputed to promote and protect women's holistic health, in all phases, physiological and otherwise, of the life cycle. The midwife considers the person as a whole, in which the mind-body-culture components interact profoundly. Prevention and containment measures have impacted on midwifery clinical and nursing practices with the mandatory continuous use of personal protective equipments (PPE) and social distancing to protect the patient and the practitioner, effectively hindering the intimacy of the woman-midwife relationship. The impact assessment focuses on two dimensions: learning, investigated as perceived empowerment, and perceived malaise, investigated as burnout. Empowerment has a positive connotation, which can offset burnout, a syndrome that affects the physical, psychological and emotional health of midwives and can have significant negative implications on midwife turnover, patient safety and outcomes, and the efficiency of healthcare organisations.
Official title: Empowerment and Burnout of Midwives at the End of Health Emergency From SARS-CoV2: a Cross-sectional Observational Study in Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
21 Years - 65 Years
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
64
Start Date
2023-01-09
Completion Date
2024-12-31
Last Updated
2024-06-13
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
Evaluation of midwifes' burnout
Burnout evaluated by questionnaires
Locations (2)
Institute for Maternal and Child Health - IRCCS "Burlo Garofolo"
Trieste, Italy
Ordine delle ostrtriche di Trieste e Gorizia
Trieste, Italy